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8 Worldly Concerns

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives a talk about the eight worldly concerns, and how grasping at these things has the effect of bringing the mind down. By thinking about death and impermanence, he explains that this gives the mind space to contemplate about the what things are useful, which things are non-useful, which things to adopt, and which things to discard.